This blog is a Practice as Research project that accumulated (as is the nature of both blogs and improvisation training)over a 2 year period to reveal a NOMADIC DANCE IMPROVISATION PRACTICE in development.
The central panel blog entries, through a regular 'date with (my) practice', document the improvisational tasks themselves, whilst the 'Articulating Improvisation' pages reveal contextual and philosophical ideas surrounding and emerging from the practice.

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Journeys 3

Traversing the Space. Shifting planes.Traveling across the studio from left to right, whilst paying attention to both the vertical and horizontal...

Professor Vida L Midgelow

is Professor in Dance and Choreographic Practices at Middlesex University UK and Co-Director of ‘The Choreographic Lab’ and Co-Editor of ‘Choreographic Practices’ (an international peer reviewed journal, Intellect).
She is a committed educator and mentor (with over 20 years experience facilitating and lecturing in dance and performance) and undertakes dramaturgical, curatorial and consultancy roles for artists and organisations.
Working across theory and practice her book, ‘Reworking the ballet: Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies’ was published by Routledge (2007) and she has presented her own performance/video works internationally. Her recent works include the sensual video series ‘ScreenBody’(2011) and the improvised performance, ‘TRACE: Playing with/out memory’(2007/8).
Vida contributes extensively to the discipline through her editorial and board commitments. She is currently Chair of the ‘Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education’ (Dance HE), the subject organisation for Dance Departments in Higher Education. She also serves on the boards of Dance4 and SDHS (USA) for whom she also edits ‘Conversations across the field of Dance Studies.’

Tim Halliday

Some background

This blog is a document of my Practice as Research Projectthat is configured as a regular 'date with (my improvisation) practice...'These studio and written 'dates' will be documented in posts that will accumulate (as is the nature of improvisation training) through time to reveal the development of aNomadic Improvisation Dance Practice.

This project seeks to address the following questions:- What are the features of a Nomadic Improvisation Practice?- What improvisational tasks and scores enable an embodiedexperience of nomadism?- How might these features and embodiments be articulatedin image and text?

This research builds up an ongoing project exploring theontologies and articulation of dance improvisation,and specifically from a dialogue entitled 'Dear Practice..',a series a of (imaginary) letters between myself andmy practice (see Trace: Improvisation in a box, Artfully Bound Publishers).